# Tony Joe
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{{Infobox album
| name = Tony Joe
| type = [Studio Album](/source/Studio_Album)
| artist = [Tony Joe White](/source/Tony_Joe_White)
| cover = Tony_Joe.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1970
| recorded = February–April 1970
| studio = *[Monument Recording](/source/Monument_Recording_Studios)
*Lyn-Lou Studios
*[RCA Victor](/source/RCA_Studio_B), Nashville, Tennessee
| venue =
| genre =
| length =
| label = [Monument](/source/Monument_Records)
| producer = [Billy Swan](/source/Billy_Swan)
| prev_title = [...Continued](/source/...Continued)
| prev_year = 1969
| next_title = [Tony Joe White](/source/Tony_Joe_White_(album))
| next_year = 1971
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Tony Joe
| type = studio
| single1 = ''High Sheriff of Calhoun Parrish''
| single1date = 1970
| single2 = ''Save Your Sugar For Me''
| single2date = 1970
}}
{{Extra album cover
| header = Alternative cover
| type = cover
| cover = Groupy Girl.jpg
| border =
| alt =
| caption = 1993 Reissue cover with new title (''Groupy Girl'')
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic)
|rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}[[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r52574|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review of ''Tony Joe'']]
| rev2 = ''[Christgau's Record Guide](/source/Christgau's_Record_Guide%3A_Rock_Albums_of_the_Seventies)''
| rev2Score = C+[{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies](/source/Christgau's_Record_Guide%3A_Rock_Albums_of_the_Seventies)|publisher=[Ticknor & Fields](/source/Ticknor_%26_Fields)|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: W|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=W&bk=70|accessdate=March 22, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}]
}}
'''''Tony Joe'''''[[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r52572|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review of ''Black and White'']][[https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/tonyjoewhite/albums/album/17202167/tony_joe ]{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}] was the third studio album released by [Tony Joe White](/source/Tony_Joe_White). It was released on [Monument Records](/source/Monument_Records) and contained the singles "High Sheriff of Calhoun Parrish" and "Save Your Sugar For Me". It was recorded at RCA Victor Studios, [Nashville](/source/Nashville) and Lyn-Lou Studios, [Memphis](/source/Memphis%2C_Tennessee) in 1970. It was produced by [Billy Swan](/source/Billy_Swan). A mixture of original recordings and covers, it featured White's versions of "Hard To Handle" made popular by [Otis Redding](/source/Otis_Redding) and "Boom Boom" by [John Lee Hooker](/source/John_Lee_Hooker).
The album was re-released on by Movieplay/Intermusic from Portugal in 1993 with a different cover and another title (''Groupy Girl''). In 1997 it was rereleased by [Warner Brothers](/source/Warner_Brothers) containing two additional songs - "I Protest" (by [Wayne Carson](/source/Wayne_Carson)) and "A Man Can Only Stand So Much Pain" ([Mickey Newbury](/source/Mickey_Newbury)).
== Critical reception ==
Reviewing in ''[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies](/source/Christgau's_Record_Guide%3A_Rock_Albums_of_the_Seventies)'' (1981), [Robert Christgau](/source/Robert_Christgau) wrote: "Because he sticks to his roots, White has those who don't trust [rock-as-art](/source/rockism) all hot and bothered. Well, I don't trust rock-as-art myself, but I don't trust these [bayou](/source/bayou) set pieces either. White's tales of spiders, widders, conjure wimmin, and wayward rich girls all sound like I've seen them on television, only there they had endings. Nor do the [Otis Redding](/source/Otis_Redding) and [Junior Walker](/source/Junior_Walker) covers teach me anything new. The [John Lee Hooker](/source/John_Lee_Hooker) is better. As are 'Save Your Sugar for Me,' about teenage sex, and 'Stockholm Blues,' about a songwriter from the bayous who goes somewhere in an airplane."